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Magic Hate Ball posted:having a local grocery is lifechanging and the fact that we, as a society, went out of our way to make sure as many people as possible don't have one is absurd I barely buy anything at Costco anymore because they simply don't have what I want. like 60% of my grocery bill is from the local grocery store. kind of been contemplating cutting costco out entirely, which would eliminate the only reason I drive anywhere anymore
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# ? May 27, 2024 11:02 |
My local Costco has fuckin cops at it on weekends to break up the fistfights and
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I once lived like two blocks from a medium-sized neighborhood grocery store and it was one of the most amazing things ever. Now I'm like 3/4 mile away from a regular-sized grocery store which could be a lot worse but it's still a fast trip sur le velo. Driving to the grocery store and parking and going in and getting 50 bags of groceries and loading them all into the bed of your Dodge Mustang Longdrive Pickuptruk or whatever and unloading them and man that poo poo sucks. Smaller/more frequent trips are way better. Contrast that with my in laws who live in the burbs and the closest coffee shop to them is a 2 mile drive yeah right buddy lmao !!
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silicone thrills posted:lol this totally is written like someone who lives in one of the outskirts burbs in the sea-tac metro area. Like they live in issaquah or snoqualmie. At one point when I was boondocking around and sleeping in my car in lots I started a photo album "the nicest views in America...brought to you by Walmart"
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Talking to the guy living in his van with stomach cancer and no family may have been the worst thing I did for my mental health in an era that included weeks of total isolation, but the sunrise over the Rocky Mountains was so worth seeing You might even say worth dying for
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a_pineapple posted:I once lived like two blocks from a medium-sized neighborhood grocery store and it was one of the most amazing things ever. Now I'm like 3/4 mile away from a regular-sized grocery store which could be a lot worse but it's still a fast trip sur le velo. Driving to the grocery store and parking and going in and getting 50 bags of groceries and loading them all into the bed of your Dodge Mustang Longdrive Pickuptruk or whatever and unloading them and man that poo poo sucks. Smaller/more frequent trips are way better. One of the things you learn when you get mobile is that walking a mile isn’t a big deal. Takes twenty minutes if you’re being lackadaisical about it.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:One of the things you learn when you get mobile is that walking a mile isn’t a big deal. Takes twenty minutes if you’re being lackadaisical about it. My office has some people who live in the city and some people from the suburbs and I've noticed a few times where we'll talk about going somewhere for lunch or going to happy hour after work at a distance I wouldn't think twice about, but the people from the suburbs balk at walking and say it's too far. And then I look it up and it's like .7 miles and all I can say is ![]() ![]() at some level of car dependency you recategorize your entire concept of distance and everything over a block or two away ends up in The Car Zone, where it's gotta be cars
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Mr. Sharps posted:the best part of having a local grocer in walking distance is getting insanely high and ambling over there to stare at the sodas and snacks livin the dream
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silicone thrills posted:lol this totally is written like someone who lives in one of the outskirts burbs in the sea-tac metro area. Like they live in issaquah or snoqualmie. equating a couple of trees (normally includes agriculture in the same bucket lol) with being eco friendly and high rise buildings with environmental destruction is such a pervasive idea, I think because it's intellectually appealing. "I can have my huge single family home, not be able to see my neighbours, and be on the right side of the environmental and housing affordability debates"
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nature is when you see plants
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affordable housing is when people of increasing means bid up a quantity of existing housing stock that's remained effectively unchanged except for in increasingly distant exurbs since 1980
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Why better things are not possible by carbrained former Hyperloop Engineerquote:Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on by Casey Handmer
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quote:The oft-stated goal time of 2 hours and 40 minutes is both unachievably rapid with finite money and current technology, and also too slow to compete with aircraft, weird thing to say when both those things have been done multiple times
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bordeaux and paris are only slightly closer than la/sf, there's an actual existing almost hourly rail connection which is under 2 hours! and it's packed, it's obviously competitive with air travel
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all fuel is synthetic you dipshit. it's like calling methane natural gas
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like did this moron even check the number for Japan's hsr
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there's a guy named ashton in the comments who is absolutely ventilating the author ~~with facts and logic~~ and getting him increasingly pissy and mad
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it doesn't matter, he's a HYPERLOOP ENGINEER and therefore an authority on transportation issues
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The comments are great and you can skip reading the entire article. I didn't get past "HSR isn't even profitable". GOOD.
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hsr so unprofitable it sustains not one but several private operators in france aside from the main state-owned one. and one private operator in italy too
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turns out there's these things called "economies of scale" that make unprofitable things profitable when widely enough adopted
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I can't get over how he's ignoring so much evidence from existing systems in favour of his theories. I thought these guys were meant to be empiricists!
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Musk freely admitted that the whole Hyperloop project was just a play to get CA to stop working on HSR. And that dumb rear end blogger thinks working on that makes him more credible?
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mortons stork posted:there's a guy named ashton in the comments who is absolutely ventilating the author ~~with facts and logic~~ and getting him increasingly pissy and mad Get his rear end, ash thalweg posted:Musk freely admitted that the whole Hyperloop project was just a play to get CA to stop working on HSR. And that dumb rear end blogger thinks working on that makes him more credible? HE'S AN ENGINEER
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lol he's like the libertarian think tank guys who got all huffy when the koch family defunded them, not realizing his life's work is a smokescreen to cover some capitalist's policy objectives
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I'm a Star Citizen developer. Here's why the Apollo program won't work,
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^^^ I just realized the Apollo program took less time to land men on the moon than it has taken RSI to develop Star Citizen
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https://twitter.com/worldbollard/status/1461425551374274567?s=46&t=eLJPde0r8C6jhD2EQnHCyg
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Japan is one of the most mountainous countries on Earth, and they invented highspeed rail so lmao at "the Earth is kind of bumpy" for talking about America
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webcams for christ posted:
every one of them, op, once you simply bulldoze enormous scars into the side of every incline for switchbacks! kidding aside, this killed a lot of funiculars that existed because horses couldn't pull cargo up steep inclines and we didn't have a "pave the entire world for horse" initiative the way we do for the car plague.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Just let me go to the Amazon or whatever warehouse myself, go into a little room built on the front of it, beep boop on some kiosk, sit in a chair for a few minutes, and then pick my stuff up at the window when my name is called lol amazon warehouses are located in the worst possible places (because it's cheap), like pastures off single-lane roads. you won't ever see one placed like a big-box store because that'd cost too much. i've driven by one a couple times recently and it's amazing how badly placed it is for access.
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mortons stork posted:there's a guy named ashton in the comments who is absolutely ventilating the author ~~with facts and logic~~ and getting him increasingly pissy and mad Ha thanks for pointing this out, I enjoyed it ![]()
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mortons stork posted:there's a guy named ashton in the comments who is absolutely ventilating the author ~~with facts and logic~~ and getting him increasingly pissy and mad loving lol at this guy's rebuttals. "Second is that Japan exists, has a ton of mountains, and constructed a bunch of HSR for a lot less money than California is."
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funiculars are cool
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I learned about funiculars by playing the Deus Ex games. Whoever designs those things fuckin' loves funiculars.
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FreeRangeHexagon posted:Japan is one of the most mountainous countries on Earth, and they invented highspeed rail so lmao at "the Earth is kind of bumpy" for talking about America quote:Japan, a linear archipelago, famously developed the high speed Shinkansen but like recent Chinese development, it must be seen in the context of very heavy-handed government subsidies and a response to geographic and structural factors that inhibited the development of airports. For example, while the US has more than 15,000 airports (most of which are untowered paved strips), Japan and much of China is relatively mountainous, historically relatively poor, and historically beset by relatively poor transport networks. Add to that various Japanese prohibitions on certain weapons technology in the post war period and high speed rail served as a government imposed solution to mass transportation. You see, Japan unfairly penalized the development of a robust airborne transit system, and now is stuck in a dystopian future with convenient and affordable mass transit serving the vast majority of its population. And then the dude wrote "but tunnels!" and Ashton responded: quote:Second is that Japan exists, has a ton of mountains, and constructed a bunch of HSR for a lot less money than California is. The latest line, Hokkaido Shinkansen opened in 2016 and cost a cool $4.67B for 92.5 miles of track, including a 33mi tunnel right in the middle of it. Not just a tunnel in fact, a tunnel under a straight to boot. So clearly HSR can be made in mountains and with tunnels for a lot cheaper than what California’s HSR will cost. Meanwhile, the Ontario government is set to spend at least that much on an idiotic highway through mostly rich farmland so that one day their developer buddies can pave it over with more garbage subdivisions.
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A lot of it is just that all types of infrastructure construction have gotten ridiculously slow/boated/expensive in the Anglosphere to the point even building even a single new subway line is a mass undertaking that takes over a decade and costs in the billions. All of it is possible, it is just the entire process is glacial and hobbled by public-private partnerships; it is a miracle anything gets built at all. Even when new projects get build they come up out awkward and semi-unusable. Not that this stuff isn't possible but everything had aligned to make sure it is nearly not so. Then you have Hyperloop which is a scam to extract more revenue from a system that is barely functional at it is.
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bumpouts in progress, gonna be awesome (added a line so you can see how much they are adding!)
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# ? May 27, 2024 11:02 |
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oh my car!!!
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